From: <up@3.am>
Subject: Re: ubench results and remarks
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 10:17:38 -0400 (EDT)  
   
ok, I just ran it again (no HW or OS changes), and got a result more in
line with expectations when running both mem and cpu ubench concurrently
(no switches):

Unix Benchmark Utility v.0.3
Copyright (C) July, 1999 PhysTech, Inc.
Author: Sergei Viznyuk <sv@phystech.com>
http://www.phystech.com/download/ubench.html
FreeBSD 4.6-RC FreeBSD 4.6-RC #4: Wed Jun 12 2 i386
Ubench CPU:   107635
Ubench MEM:    60240
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Ubench AVG:    83937

On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 up@3.am wrote:

> 
> This is on FreeBSD 4.6-RC #1, an Intel L440GX+ (BOXL440GXG) with 2 x PIII
> 1Ghz CPUs, 100Mhz FSB, 1GB ECC RAM.
> 
> What's curious is that I get very different results for the CPU test if I
> run it alone (without the memory test):
> 
> su-2.05a# ubench -c
> Unix Benchmark Utility v.0.3
> Copyright (C) July, 1999 PhysTech, Inc.
> Author: Sergei Viznyuk <sv@phystech.com>
> http://www.phystech.com/download/ubench.html
> FreeBSD 4.6-RC FreeBSD 4.6-RC #1: Tue Jun  4 0 i386
> Ubench CPU:   112898
> 
> su-2.05a# ubench
> Unix Benchmark Utility v.0.3
> Copyright (C) July, 1999 PhysTech, Inc.
> Author: Sergei Viznyuk <sv@phystech.com>
> http://www.phystech.com/download/ubench.html
> FreeBSD 4.6-RC FreeBSD 4.6-RC #1: Tue Jun  4 0 i386
> Ubench CPU:    53360
> Ubench MEM:    62237
> --------------------
> Ubench AVG:    57798
> 
> The memory alone doesn't seem to make much difference:
> 
> su-2.05a# ubench -m
> Unix Benchmark Utility v.0.3
> Copyright (C) July, 1999 PhysTech, Inc.
> Author: Sergei Viznyuk <sv@phystech.com>
> http://www.phystech.com/download/ubench.html
> FreeBSD 4.6-RC FreeBSD 4.6-RC #1: Tue Jun  4 0 i386
> Ubench MEM:    63009
> 
> For comparison purposes, are most of the results on your site the result
> of running both tests concurrently, or independantly?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> James Smallacombe		      PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
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> 

James Smallacombe		      PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
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